Hi there,

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, David Jacobs wrote:

> I'm converting a few CGI scripts that used the PID as a cyclical unique 
> number (in concert with TIMESTAMP - so it was TIMESTAMP.PID).
> 
> Our goal is to find a replacement function that is extremely cheap 
> (cheaper than say, random(1000000)) and will never repeat. Any ideas? 

Have a look at Time::HiRes?

73,
Ged.


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